'I killed him with my bare hands': Chilling moment 'serial killer' admits murdering a 77-year-old and cutting up his body with a sword and claims he has slayed 32 people
- Nicholas Brent Gibson, 32, waived extradition back to Florida during Friday hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court
- Gibson is accused of stabbing to death his former housemate, Erik Stocker, 77, with a samurai sword in Miami Beach in April
- Asked by a reporter about the killing, Gibson first claimed he killed Stocker with his bare hands, then said he did it with a big samurai sword
- When asked for a motive, Gibson replied, referring to Stocker, 'He wanted to go'
- While awaiting transport back to jail, Gibson said he's been on a killing spree since age 12 and put the number of his victims at 32
Holding his head high and staring dead-eyed straight ahead outside the Manhattan Criminal Court, suspected serial killer Nicholas Brent Gibson coolly confessed to 32 murders in front of a gaggle of reporters.
Gibson, 32, at first claimed to have killed 77-year-old Erik Stocker with his bare hands, then seemingly contradicted himself by saying that he used a big samurai sword, and alleged that the victim wanted to die.
The Florida drifter was arrested nearly two weeks ago in the a New York City subway in connection to the killing of his former housemate, Stocker, who was stabbed with a samurai sword inside the Miami Beach apartment the two men shared in April.
Convicted sex offender and accused killer Nicholas Brent Gibson, 32, waived extradition back to Florida during a Friday hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court (pictured left and right)
As he was being escorted by US Marshals out of the courthouse, Gibson made a series of chilling statements to the press
The 32-year-old Florida drifter appeared impassive and spoke in a clam voice
Gibson had his hands restrained and his ankles shackled as he emerged from the courthouse at 100 Centre Street in Manhattan Friday
Dressed in a tan jail garb, with his wrists restrained and his ankles shackled, the heavily tattooed convicted sex offender appeared before a judge on Friday morning for an extradition hearing.
After waving extradition back to Florida to potentially face murder charges, he was led outside by a pair of US Marshals.
While awaiting transport, a reporter asked Gibson if he killed 'the guy in Florida.'
'With my bare hands,' he replied while motioning with his tattooed hands cuffed at the waist level.
When another member of the media noted that it has been reported that the murder weapon was a sword, Gibson replied, 'Yes. A big one.'
Asked by a reporter if he killed Erik Stocker in Florida, Gibson replied, 'With my bare hands'
The 32-year-old suspect gestured with his heavily tattooed hands that were restrained at the waist level
He confirmed previous reports that he had begun killing people at age 12, and after a long pause put his tally of victims at 32
A third reporter inquired of the accused killer why he took Stocker's life, to which he simply said, 'He wanted to go.'
As Gibson shuffled to an awaiting car to be taken back to jail, he played with the chain looped around his waist, admired the buildings in downtown Manhattan and continued answering reporters' questions with a placid expression on his face.
Tattoo artist Nicholas Brent Gibson, 32, has admitted to a string of murders across the United States since 1999 when he was 12. Now he claims he killed a Finnish tourist in Florida
He confirmed previous reports that he had begun killing people at age 12, and after a long pause reportedly put his total tally of victims at 32.
Investigators in three states are currently looking into through cold cases and missing persons reports to determine whether Gibson's crimes are real, or are nothing more than empty boasts meant to waste police time and makes his infamous.
Police sources told DailyMail.com last week that Gibson insisted he was 13 when he claimed his first victim, bashing a 'black man' with a brick in 1999.
He said the murder took place in woodland near his home in Kennesaw, Georgia, where he struck again one year later, throwing a special needs child into a river.
Gibson was convicted of rape in June 2000 and spent seven years locked up at the Illinois Youth Center in Harrisburg, Illinois.
The one-bedroom home (ringed) of Erik Stocker in the Miami Beach, Florida complex where his body was found on April 30. Nicholas Gibson has confessed to the murder, said to have been committed with a samurai sword
Mystery death: Essi Puhakka, 27, was a Finnish woman found drowned in Biscayne Bay, Florida, in February 2015. An autopsy was inconclusive. Nicholas Gibson, 32, tells cops he killed her. They are now investigating; records suggest he was in prison in Georgia at the time
He told detectives that after his release he killed a Russian man in Tampa Bay, Florida before slicing the throat of an African American man he smoked marijuana with in Compton, California.
He claimed to have used the same knife as in the Compton killing to murder a homeless man in Key West, his supposed fifth slaying.
Gibson said he murdered his penultimate victim, a female tourist, by drowning her in Biscayne Bay, close to Miami Beach, in 2015.
One of the investigators from the Miami Beach Police Department remembered a similar case from February of that year, when the body of Finnish national Essi Puhakka, 27,was found along a seawall.
Gibson's criminal history seems to suggest he was behind bars when the body was found, having been sentenced to two years in prison in February 2014 for failing to register as a sex offender in Cobb County, Georgia.
Stocker's decomposing body was found on April 30 after neighbors reported a foul odor coming from his first floor apartment in South Beach.
Cops believe he had been dead inside for about two weeks but the corpse went undetected because most of the neighboring units are vacation homes.
Tattoo artist Gibson, who sources said was living with Stocker and possibly serving as a health aide, allegedly killed and mutilated him, then stole his wallet and credit cards.
The former barman and Dunkin' Donuts server then used one of the cards to buy a bus ticket to New York City, where he used it again at a Pronto Pizza near the Rockefeller Center on May 3.
Two days later police saw him get off an L train in Manhattan's East Village and detained him after a brief struggle, before charging him with resisting arrest and being a fugitive from another state.
Since his first rape conviction at age 13 and subsequent release in June 2000, Gibson, who also goes by the alias 'Brent Savage,' has drifted from state to state, repeatedly re-offending and failing to alert authorities to his whereabouts.
The wiry pervert, who also goes under the name Brent Savage, pleaded guilty to raping a person under 16 in Tyrone, Pennsylvania in May 2008 and was given a four and a half year sentence.
Since his release in June 2012 he has been convicted of failing to register as a sex offender on four different occasions.
During one stint behind bars, Gibson's then girlfriend Stephanie Stocks gave birth to his only child in early 2017.
According to friends, Stocks died from an overdose four months later and the child was taken into care.
Savage Angel: Gibson has been in prison for over 16 years. He served seven years for rape in 2000, four-and-half years for rape in 2008, nine months for failing to register as a sexual predator in 2013, two years for again failing to register in 2014 and 30 months for failing to register in 2017
